Köstendorf

The community is located 15 km northeast of the city of Salzburg and lies on Lake Wallersee in the judicial district of Neumarkt near Salzburg . Köstendorf also borders on Straßwalchen, Henndorf, Seekirchen , Neumarkt and Schleedorf .

The Wenger Moor nature reserve is also located in the municipality.

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following 10 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Enharting (63)
Grouchy (26)
Helming (270) including Erka, Fischachmühle, Fischweng, Haunharting and Fischweng forest settlement
Hilgertsheim (106) including Gerperding and Hilgertsheim-Scattered Houses
Kleinköstendorf (355)
Köstendorf (1081) including Hellmühle and Vogltenn
Spanswag (383) including Berg, Buchwinkl and Pifuß
Tannham (61)
Tödtleinsdorf (146) including Oberried, Tödtleinsdorf-Scattered Houses and Unterried
Weng (179)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Köstendorf and Tödtleinsdorf.

history

The first documentary mention of Köstendorf comes from the year 784, but the area at the foot of the Tannberg has a much longer history of settlement. For example, a dugout canoe from the Stone Age was found on the shores of the Wallersee in Weng and in the summer of 1924 Martin Hell and his wife discovered a settlement from the Younger Stone Age on the Tannberg, some of which was scientifically researched. Numerous barrows were also found on the Tannberg and near the Fischachmühle. Based on the finds, they were dated to the more recent Hallstatt period (around 700 BC the birth of Christ). The barrows were opened and examined between 1907 and 1924 by Professor Oliver Klose (1907) and Martin Hell and his wife (1911 and 1924).

Since the municipality of Köstendorf was on the Roman road between Salzburg and Wels, there were and are of course finds from this period. So z. For example, in the annual report of the Carolino-Augusteum Museum from 1866 on p. 23, the acquisition of a bronze vessel in the form of a bust, which comes from the remains of a Roman building found in Tannham. Roman remains were also repeatedly discovered between 1877 and 1947 in the hamlets of Neufahrn, Wertheim and Pfongau, which belonged to Köstendorf until the Second World War. The last excavations in Pfongau were only recently undertaken, the remains of a Villa Rustica were examined and, among other things, a bronze Venus figure was found.

As already mentioned, the first documentary mention of Köstendorf comes from the year 784 under the name Chessindorf. The name Chessindorf comes from Romansh and in the Breves Notitiae novels are also mentioned specifically in connection with Chessindorf. The hamlets whose names end in -ing and -ham are evidence of the Bavarian colonization of the area that began in the second half of the 6th century. Also in the early Middle Ages, the ending on -dorf was used to designate places that had a certain “central” meaning within the rural settlement landscape (e.g. church locations). These were mostly created on important traffic routes such as Henndorf, on the old Roman road from Juvavum (Salzburg) to Ovilava (Wels) or Köstendorf on the connection from the Wallersee basin to the Trumer lakes area.

The sparse remains of a fortress at the western end of the first slope terrace of the Tannberg probably date from the early Middle Ages. Remains of a rampart with a ditch around 8 meters wide and at different heights and depths (wall 0.6 to 0.8 meters and ditch around 1.8 meters) have been preserved. A rounded triangular shape with a length of around 20 meters has been separated by the wall and neck ditch . The rear edge of this castle stable forms the steep slope to the Schreiberbach. Furthermore, a tower is said to have stood on a hill in Weng between Wallerbach and Altbach. This is mentioned in a document in a deed of donation to the Mondsee Monastery: an estate in Weng "by the wall and the wall itself"

In the Middle Ages, the office of Köstendorf with the offices of Seekirchen and Henndorf belonged to the Alt- and Lichtentann nursing court, at that time Köstendorf was divided into four Rügate (administrative parts). (The later division of the municipality was based on this division.) Köstendorf was the mother parish for Lichtentann and Seekirchen for Altentann. When Neumarkt am Wallersee, founded by Archbishop Eberhard II in 1240, endowed with extensive privileges and continuously expanded as a border bastion by the later archbishops, Köstendorf lost more and more importance.

The last plague epidemic in Salzburg, 1713 to 1715, then occurred in the towns of Köstendorf, Steindorf and Berndorf. The victims of this epidemic from Köstendorf and Steindorf were buried at the branch church St. Johann am Berg in Kleinköstendorf in a plague cemetery specially created for this purpose.

Köstendorf has been an independent municipality since 1849 and covered a much larger area than it does today until the Second World War. Before the Second World War, the hamlets of Pfongau, Lengroid, Sommerholz, Wertheim, Neufahrn, Schalkham, Maierhof, Thalham and Matzing, which now belong to Neumarkt am Wallersee, also belonged to the municipality. When Austria was annexed to the German Reich in March 1938, the municipality was dissolved and the municipality of Neumarkt a. W. affiliated. The western part from Fischachmühle came to Schleedorf. After the end of the Second World War , everything was done by some Köstendorf residents to re-establish an independent community. What was achieved after five years on April 4, 1950, leaving behind some areas.

coat of arms

The description is made according to heraldic custom from the viewing direction of the shield or coat of arms bearer as follows:

A split shield , right inside a red and silver gestückten Bordes in silver on green triple mount a green fir , left in silver a red bar .

On April 5, 1951, Deputy Governor Peyerl signed the certificate with which the Salzburg State Government awarded the coat of arms to the municipality of Köstendorf upon request. The fact that the place Köstendorf was first mentioned in the 8th century is decisive for the award. The right part of the coat of arms is intended to commemorate the Tannberg, the most outstanding landmark of the municipality, as well as the Lords of Tann, who were fiefdoms of the court and landlords in the village until the 14th century. The left half is the coat of arms of the Lords of Puchheim , who owned Weng, which is located in the municipality, in the Middle Ages and at times also called themselves Lords of Weng.

politics

Town hall Köstendorf

The community council has a total of 19 members.

With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2004, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2009 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2014 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2019 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.